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   A viral Threads post claims that Texas Gov. Greg Abbott recently   
   purged 1.1 million from the state’s voter rolls. “TEXANS.   
   Governor Greg Abbott removed 1.1 million people from the voting   
   roll,” it says. “Check your status at VoteTexas.gov,”   
      
   The claim is factually true but missing important context. Texas   
   has removed 1.1 million ineligible registrations from its voter   
   rolls since 2021, but the removals are routine: Federal law   
   requires states to periodically remove ineligible voters from   
   their voting rolls.   
      
   In 2021, Texas Gov. Greg Abbott signed Senate Bill 1, an   
   election integrity measure that included changes to state rules   
   on mail-in and drive-through voting, voting hours, poll watcher   
   protections, and citizenship checks. The legislation came amid a   
   nationwide push for election security reform from state   
   Republican parties following widespread—and unfounded—voter   
   fraud allegations made during the 2020 presidential election.   
      
   The Texas bill reentered online conversation late last month   
   after Abbott boasted that, since signing the bill in 2021, more   
   than 1 million ineligible voters had been purged from Texas   
   voter rolls. “Election integrity is essential to our democracy,”   
   Abbott said in a press release. “I have signed the strongest   
   election laws in the nation to protect the right to vote and to   
   crackdown on illegal voting. These reforms have led to the   
   removal of over one million ineligible people from our voter   
   rolls in the last three years, including noncitizens, deceased   
   voters, and people who moved to another state.”   
      
   While Abbott seemingly credits the state’s recent election laws   
   for the removal of ineligible voters, periodic purges of voting   
   rolls are not new and have been required by federal law for   
   decades.   
      
   Section 8 of the 1993 National Voting Rights Act requires states   
   to “conduct a general program that makes a reasonable effort to   
   remove the names of ineligible voters from the official lists of   
   eligible voters,” for reasons including “the death of the   
   registrant” or “a change in residence of the registrant.”   
      
   In Texas, voters who have official mail—such as renewal   
   certificates or jury summons—returned as undeliverable are added   
   to a suspense list and sent a Notice of Address Confirmation. If   
   the voter does not respond to the notice and does not vote in   
   the proceeding two general elections, then their registration is   
   subject to cancellation. Texas’ procedure for removing deceased   
   voters occurs every month as death certificates are reported to   
   county and state officials, and again each quarter when the   
   secretary of state receives death records from the U.S. Social   
   Security Administration.   
      
   According to an analysis of Texas voter registration   
   cancellation data by the New York Times, the number of   
   ineligible voters purged from Texas voter rolls since Abbott   
   signed Senate Bill 1 has not differed substantially from those   
   purged prior to the bill’s passage.   
      
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